Show The Chaplains Chaplain's Corps By Dy RUTH TAYLOR H 11 I I. I Phillips that typical American an columnist who can turn a quip with the best of ot them and make you laugh with his humor can with equal skill touch your heartstrings with his bis sincere devotion to the Ideals that are American Recently Mr Phillips wrote a fine tine tribute to the Chaplains' Chaplains Corps that Corps that unselfish whole body of men who owning allegiance to the spirit of of the working democracy that is Ia the United Uni ted States own a still higher allegiance to that 00 God 1 in whom our ur nation trusts They may be Catholic Protestant or Jew i they they may differ In creed creed but but they are alike in their devotion and in their faith that to GO God 1 all things are possible Theirs is s a fine tine tradition to which they are adding greater laurels on battle battlefronts battlefronts battlefronts fronts all aU over the world The priest who puts the water on dry dry lips Ups The rector leading tired men in prayer The rabbi with word of Abraham share Each doing quietly his holy share These are the men who ease the weary path Who touch the heart and heal the harassed soul BOul Who keep the vision of the boyhood day Preserving things learned at a mothers knee Anyone with a man at the front and front and I what family today hasn't a man there i feels feels better because of ot these men They are the unarmed soldiers going without weapons into the battle They t face unafraid because of th their lr faith the same dangers that confront the men who turn to them for tor comfort Never faltering falter falter- faltering ing in their duty they are at all times ministers unto men teachers of ot the truth preachers of the way consolers I I. I of the dying The Catholic the Protestant the tho Jew- Jew As one they give the all sustaining grace To those who die to keep our way of or life Ufe Without regard to color faith or race Theirs Their's is the symbol of a nation strong The force that makes a country's I shield so bright The Chaplains' Chaplains Corps of t gallant Godlike Godlike Godlike God God- like men I Who blaze the way with the Eternal Light All honor unto the chaplains of ot our armed forces I They too are heroes of whom the whole nation is proud and to whom we each owe owes owea A debt of ot gratitude |